WIFI booster- pain cave

duffyshuffle wrote: »

Got the TP PowerLine for external shed, paired in kitchen, plugged in to router with Ethernet and it’s beside the garden, shed is wired from house but signal is very poor or doesn’t work in shed, says connected to wifi but not to the internet - i can see WiFi on smart tv etc and showing signal on wifi on phone, have plug connected to tv with Ethernet also, signal showed <1mbps yesterday and today not working at all - anyone know best way to troubleshoot? Thanks

Which one did you get? If its the non WiFi one you'll need another router in the shed to send out a signal unless it's plugged directly via ethernet into whatever device your using.
If you have it plugged into the TV and that's what your trying to use then turn off WiFi in the TV settings and use the ethernet setting instead.

.red. wrote: »

Which one did you get? If its the non WiFi one you'll need another router in the shed to send out a signal unless it's plugged directly via ethernet into whatever device your using.
If you have it plugged into the TV and that's what your trying to use then turn off WiFi in the TV settings and use the ethernet setting instead.

Thanks I have the AV600 powerline TL WPAA4220 KIT so a TL-PA4010 also

Found posts saying check DNS and IP and input it tried that but wasn’t totally sure what I was doing and it didn’t work.
I have the tv cabled and phone using WiFi and both didn’t really work well or at all

duffyshuffle wrote: »

Got the TP PowerLine for external shed, paired in kitchen, plugged in to router with Ethernet and it’s beside the garden, shed is wired from house but signal is very poor or doesn’t work in shed, says connected to wifi but not to the internet - i can see WiFi on smart tv etc and showing signal on wifi on phone, have plug connected to tv with Ethernet also, signal showed <1mbps yesterday and today not working at all - anyone know best way to troubleshoot? Thanks

duffyshuffle wrote: »

Thanks I have the AV600 powerline TL WPAA4220 KIT so a TL-PA4010 also

Found posts saying check DNS and IP and input it tried that but wasn’t totally sure what I was doing and it didn’t work.
I have the tv cabled and phone using WiFi and both didn’t really work well or at all

The fact that the TV isnt working cabled says the EoPs (Powerlines) aren't communicating. They are a bodge and are not guaranteed to work.


Around your house theyre often on the same ring or on two parallel rings. Does the shed have its own consumer unit ("fusebox")?

Deleted User wrote: »

I'd be fairly sure this is a configuration issue. Given the distances involved you'd want to be living in a mansion with a kilometre of cabling for this not to get you a decent connection in the shed.

Have a look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCD_K1_rtsk

Thanks, watched that and read some comments, pretty sure that's the steps I followed, i'll reset it later and start over and see how it goes, thanks

I think initially it worked with v weak cabled connection, then tried to repair to fix it and didn't work or was v v weak (pages wouldn't load).

duffyshuffle wrote: »

The network is present and can join it, but no internet connection available, i'll try cable it later in my house and then try again in shed and see if it's out there.

Its broadcasting the SSID it was set to, it does that on its own, but it sounds like it has nowhere to send the traffic.

Use the middle LED to determine status, the home should be green indicating EoP communication, sometimes amber/red will function too (indicates a weaker than desired connection).

Played around tonight with it - I reset and repaired the plugs together, all lights showing green, I used ethernet with PS4 in my house and signal strength 25 MBPS, then out to shed and it was down to 0.0x... the powerline LEDs turned off on both plugs when I moved one in to the shed - so this indicates it is using a different power source or there is some interference - I switched off the electric radiator out in shed so don't think there is interference in the way, so must be different connection? I don't know wiring at all - my modem and connected plug are in my extension and then the wiring is run out to the shed, so could there be a different wire/fuse doing that? I assumed all cables on the board are on the same powerline?
I brought it back in there and checked it on Wifi and it's running at same speed as wired and powerline LEDs are back on... hmm...

Just logged on to app and it can see the devices, on the 2.4Ghz channel and showing connections etc...

TP say they don't work properly over extension cables. I've no sockets at my Internet point in the house so have an extension lead running off a socket at the other end of the hall and my modem and TP plug are in that and it works perfect.
I really don't know anything about electrics so this is a guess but maybe your shed is wired from an existing socket, like an extension lead and the cable is just too long for them to work properly?

I’ve just set up AV600 powerline TL WPAA4220 KIT but now running two separate networks in the house. It’s not a major concern but to set up under same WiFi do I need to forget current settings somehow?